Cet atelier s’adresse aux chercheur.euses et étudiant.es de doctorat en sciences économiques qui s’intéressent à l’économie des ressources naturelles et de l’environnement. L’atelier est animé par une équipe de professeurs.es composée de Geir B. Asheim (Université d’Oslo), Hassan Benchekroun (Université McGill), Sophie Bernard (Polytechnique Montréal), Etienne Billette de Villemeur (Université de Lille, UQAM), Robert Cairns (Université McGill), Justin Leroux (HEC Montréal), et Charles Séguin (UQAM). 

Cet atelier sur l’économie des ressources naturelles et de l’environnement accueillera Moustapha Thiam, doctorant à l'UQAM, et Rémy Molinier, étudiant à HEC.

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• Moustapha Thiam, doctorant à l'UQAM

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• Rémy Molinier, étudiant à HEC
  State Energy Use Is (Mostly) a Policy Choice: Prices, Efficiency, and the Energy Demand Frontier

Résumé

State-level aggregate energy use is often portrayed as an inevitable consequence of fundamental factors like GDP per capita or climate. We argue instead that, conditional on these fundamentals, cross-state differences in energy demand are largely shaped by public policy. Using a panel of U.S. states from 2006–2022, we first apply an LMDI decomposition to show that recent reductions in per-capita energy use are overwhelmingly driven by lower energy intensity rather than lower activity or milder weather. We then estimate a stochastic demand frontier for total per-capita energy consumption and decompose variation into frontier, inefficiency, and noise. Finally, we use relative-importance methods to quantify how much variation in the frontier is associated with policy-controlled levers—specifically energy prices and energy-efficiency policies—versus structural and climatic factors such as GDP per capita, sectoral mix, building floor area, and heating and cooling degree days. Prices and efficiency policies explain more frontier variation than GDP or climate.